It’s odd that they even had to think to offer a bribe. Usually establishment media journalists are eager to follow the hard-Left line and do all they can to keep their readers ignorant and complacent regarding the jihad threat, Muslim migrant crime, and Sharia oppression.
“Claim: Dutch Police Bribe Newspaper to Bury Data on Criminal Asylum Seekers,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, May 4, 2017:
Dutch police hiding statistics revealing asylum seeker’s involvement in crime, even attempting to bribe journalists into ignoring the topic, it has been claimed.
The national police force of the Netherlands admitted trying to cut a deal with the country’s largest newspaper, which claimed to have been offered leads and exclusive stories if they dropped a freedom of information request on the number of asylum seekers involved in crime.
However, the police denied this amounted to a cover-up, claiming they wanted the figures to remain secret as they could be “misleading” to the public. They statistics have still not been published.
“Unfortunately, this approach makes it look like police seek to ignore facts that are socially sensitive. Nothing is less true”, police chief executive Erik Akerboom said in a statement this Monday.
Mr. Akerboom and the force was responding to an article in De Telegraaf, published over the weekend, revealing the underhand deal proposed to them by police.
“Initially, the police had denied to this newspaper that they even collected data on crime among foreigners seeking asylum”, the paper explained, claiming the police then change their reason to “keep the figures under the hat” as the subject “remains taboo”.
The paper said they filed the freedom of information request as they wanted to investigate the cause of a spike in pick-pocketing and petty crime.
The police told them if they did not publish data on asylum seeker’s involvement, “the editors would in return get other news on addressing example pickpockets from safe countries and failed asylum seekers…”
“As icing on the cake we would also get an ‘exclusive interview’ with chief Erik Akerboom about the issue”, they added.
“We will inform De Telegraaf that we will review the [freedom of information] request again”, Mr. Akerboon [sic] said, insisting the police “regretted that the newspaper had the impression we wanted to keep them from publishing” and that they had never wanted “to impose silence”….
After the 2015/16 New Years Eve mass sex attacks in Cologne, Germany, police were criticised for initially not making public the background of perpetrators. The majority were later revealed to be asylum seekers.
And in January 2016, Swedish police were ordered not to release descriptions of criminal suspects that include race or nationality, to avoid being branded racist.
Peter says
Yet another Tom Dumb sticking his head in the dyke to avoid widespread knowledge of the truth.
Wellington says
This kind of crap in The Netherlands is not, to put it mildly, in the mold of figures like William the Silent, Queen Wilhelmina and Geert Wilders.
Wish it were otherwise but we do live in an exceedingly silly age, nothing more dispositive of this truth being the continued exculpation of the spiritual fascism which is Islam by Westerners in huge numbers.
As here, apparently, by the Dutch police.
The Age of Nonsense continues to march on, whether in The Netherlands, in Washington DC, in the Vatican, at 10 Downing Street, in Ottawa, and so many other places in the West (two other very recent examples being the University of Buffalo and Gettysburg College).
And for what? For Islam? Pathetic, stupid in the extreme and damn cowardly too.
Freedom says
Stupid in the extreme …. indeed
This global non sequitur epidemic has for decades presented a slipstream to Islamic savagery and has allowed the establishment of enemy havens within western society from which they launch their increasing attacks.
And when those attacks results in mass murder as they so often do, how do these imbeciles respond? ……. with obsequious appeasement, throwing a protective cover over the ROP lest some “erroneous” connection is made ,,,,,,,,, can’t have the P in the ROP questioned.
As you say Wellington ….. Pathetic ……..sickeningly so.
Greyhound Fancier says
More like the Age of Capitulation and Accommodation. To savages, no less!
common sense says
“The national police force of the Netherlands admitted trying to cut a deal with the country’s largest newspaper, which claimed to have been offered leads and exclusive stories if they dropped a freedom of information request on the number of asylum seekers involved in crime.”
So there was no “intent” the police claimed “they never wanted to impose silence”.
Gee Bob, where have we all heard this before?
Either they have been eviscerated by Muslim political advocacy groups or maybe on the take and these are dirty, foul cops spitting plague filled narratives directly from Satan’s besmeared farting hole. They shame the police as badly as Comey shamed the fbi. How can this go on any longer?
mortimer says
The Dutch police have been caught trying to eviscerate freedom of information and freedom of the press.
This is the beginning of the end from the West.
The Netherlands have always been the capital of Free Europe where writers could run for safety. Now the Dutch politicians are trying to bride the media to be silent about Islamic crime and supremacism.
Who is running the show? The OIL COMPANIES?
Carolyne says
Likely. Saudi Arabia’s great wealth seems to spread far and wide. And we stupidly continue to buy their oil instead of being self sufficient, as we easily could with our vast resources in both reserves and intellect.
Jeanette says
Saudi Arabia has slung its money around so much that it is short on funds now.
That’s why they are being forced to sell off some of the national oil company, Saudi Aramco via an IPO offering (sometime soon).
I think we have to look to the Dutch police (and anyone controlling them) for this idiocy. The police actually WANT to have to deal with more rapes, robberies, attacks, thefts, vandalism? Or do they know something we don’t know? Is the Netherlands going to go further than Brazil did when it lowered penalties for Muslim criminals? Is the Netherlands going to remove penalties altogether, so that the police don’t have to deal with any Muslim crimes?
I wouldn’t put it past some of the Euro-globalists to be that stupid.
Jeanette says
And to be fair, I wouldn’t put it past a bunch of US globalists, either.
Cretius says
Convicted rapists should be emasculated. Period.
Karen says
“Mr. Akerboon [sic] said, insisting the police “regretted that the newspaper had the impression we wanted to keep them from publishing” ”
This is so similar to the apology that goes like this: “I’m sorry if you were offended when I called you a fat liar”.
Mr. Akerboon sounds like so many Islam apologists, who are constantly whining that everyone just doesn’t understand. The more Mr. Akerboon explains, the worse things look, especially for him.
Karen says
Apologies, the correct name is Akerboom.
Westman says
And some Dutch citizens wonder why Geert Wilders keeps gaining voters…
Guest says
I wouldn’t put it past them
John A. Marre says
Can’t let the people catch on that they’re being targeted for replacement.
Cretius says
History has taught us that you cannot accommodate Islam without losing your soul. The only way Islam has been checked is through military action. There is no reason to believe the future will be different in this respect from the past.
Empress Trudy says
Why don’t the Dutch simply stop arresting ”migrants” or Muslims generally? Just let them carry on however they like. That day is coming soon anyway so there’s no reason to blush.
DRHazard says
Statistics only matter when they’re on your side. The police are in a bind. I am sure they all know what’s really going on but they also know that statistics would bring the issue out of soft-focus and into the realm of facts. Taxpayers would then expect them to do something about it. The police don’t want to work that hard on what’s, in the beginning and end, a political problem.